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Germany invade Czechoslovakia
On this date 15, march 1939. Hiter's force invades and occupy Czechoslovakia. -a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. -
WW2 started
World war 2 began in September when France and Britain declared war against Germany following the Germans invasion of Poland. -
Canada declares war against Germany
Many Canadians were shocked that Britain and France were at war with Germany yet again. In World War I, many Canadians paraded the streets at the declaration of war, but now, very few did. Many Canadians did not relish the idea of having more lives lost. -
France surrender
When Paris was taken over by Germany, France had already lost all hope because they were weak. They later signed an armistice to drop out of the war. The armistice went full had a full effect when on June 25, Germany had already flooded in half of France. -
The battle of Britian
Operation Sealion was Germany's strategy for attacking Britain. The UK used radar to figure out where the Germans would attack from. While the UK lost 1,000 planes, the Germans lost 1,700. The Germans bombed everything they could, but ultimately radar saved the UK from falling to Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Bataan death March
After April 9th, 1942, when the US surrender of the Bataan peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during ww2. Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65 mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. . -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in Europe. It ended any realistic plans of Hitler dominating Europe. Soviet troops forced Nazi armies to retreat toward Germany. The USSR went on the offensive after Germany's attack. This opened the eastern front of the war. -
Allies drive Germans out of North Africa
The British had been fighting the Germans and Italians in North Africa since 1940. Forcing Germany out of North Africa would provide the Allies with an opportunity to invade Italy. In 1943, George S. Patton (US tank commander) defeated Rommel (German tank commander). 240,000 Germans and Italians surrendered. This provided a way for the Allies to invade mainland Europe through southern Italy. -
D-DAY
more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental. Approximately 8000 troops died. -
Hitler's Suiceide
When Hitler has all his plans fail and since he didn't want to be arrested, he to pills and then shot himself to make sure he was dead. also had his wife there so she could make sure that he was going to die. -
VE-day
Hitler's "thousand year reich" or the third reich ended, lasting only 12 years. On May 7, Germany surrendered in a French schoolhouse that had acted as Eisenhower's headquarters. Americans celebrated Victory in Europe Day. FDR passed a few weeks prior and Harry S. Truman would see the US through the war. At this point, the end of the war was close in sight. -
Dropping of atomic bombs
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. August 6th and 9th -
V-J day
V-J day is also known as victory over japan day. September 14 and 15 were the days that japan had surrenders
